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1 It can have pins
at the end of it
5 El —
8 Pop's Mama
12 Printer handle
17 Declaretobetrue
18 Math class ratio
19 Metz man
20 —Khan:"TheJungle
Book" tiger
21 Pop-up book?
25 Tool usually pluralized
26 "According to whom?"
retort
27 "Don't be —!"
28 Haifa's home: Abbr.
29 Pleasingly dated retail
adjective
31 Post-WWII pres.
monogram
32 Black cat, to some
33 Match book?
40 Woodard of "Passion
Fish"
43 "The Voice" host
Carson
44 One eliciting yawns
45 Diagnostic aid
46 Silver finish?
47 King Minos' land
49 Does the 96-Down for
51 Sussex suffix
52 Has regrets about
53 Hill helper
54 Over-the-shoulder
garment
55 Battery parts
57 They're defined by
revolutions: Abbr.58 Bit of work
59 Some HDTVs
61 SwissMissproduct
64 Blue book?
70 Sign of vacancy?
71 Tempe neighbor
72 St. Louis summer hrs.
73 Leave in the dust by
overtaking?
75 Pool table slab
78 Fivers
80 "The Lion King" villain
82 Almanac fodder
83 Facebook chuckle
84 Removes for good
87 Bygone royals
88 The Haj" novelist"
89 "Get on it now!"
91 Eros, in Rome
92 Didn't let out, as one's
breath
93 Chanel product
94 Text book?
99 Picasso output
100 Recipient of much Apr.
mail
101 Morales of "Ozark"
102 "Leaves and Navels"
artist
105 Schoolyard pal in a
Paul Simon song
107 Short-legged hunter
110 Rudolph Valentino's
"Blood and Sand"
co-star
112 Address book?
115 Zellweger of "Cold
Mountain"
116 Lions' prides
117 Gobs of
118 "Yeah,yeah,Igetit"
119 Practices in a ring
120 Small strings
121 Put in
122 Litter criesDOWN
1 Christine of "The
Blacklist"
2 Declares
3 More up-to-date
4 Art Deco icon
5 Dante translator John
6 Tats
7 Shoddy pair?
8 Tummy-tightening
garment
9 Clock radio toggle
10 Barrie's bosun
11 UGA's conf.
12 Book before Job
13 Fifth-most populous
U.S. city
14 Scorch
15 Relative of -ish
16 Cousin of com
18 Dog attractor
19 Period of great
popularity
22 Thinning layer23 Striker of a polymer
ball
24 Mess (with)
30 Was discontinued
32 Fiona or Shrek
33 Finds in mines
34 Grill, maybe
35 Flanged girder
36 Pay attention to
37 Diagnostic aids
38 Steinbeck's"—ofEden"
39 Deli selections
40 Out of whack
41 Linney of "Ozark"
42 Caught this morning
47 Magna —
48 Hardship
49 Treatments
for breaks
50 Pub pick
54 Burglars' targets
56 Unit of wheat
58 First name in the
beautyaisle60 Word with clean or
unglued
62 Richard's songwriting
partner
63 Starfleet VIPs
65 End of a believer?
66 "Because," to a kid
67 Pain in the neck
68 Highway alert
69 Attended as an
observer
74 It's behind you
75 —dunk
76 Misplace
77 Worry word
79 North Atlantic hazard
81 Tight-knit squad
82 Conveyer of tears
85 Slangy convertible
86 Grenoble gal pal
87 Reacts to trouble
90 Hymnal that's often
richly illustrated
92 Oater regulars93 Con man's cohort
95 Surfaces
96 Things to do after
dinner
97 Kitchen work spot
98 In a carefree
manner
102 How great minds think
103 Cut again, as grass
104 Cheats at blind man's
buff
105 Wrangler, e.g.
106 Middies' sch.
107 Toucan's pride
108 Teen breakout
109 Detective show that
spawned "Baretta"
111 Chem class model
112 Real estate ad abbr.
113 Bird in some
Australian place
names
114 Fidget spinners,
evidentlyLast week’s solution:
“Done to a T”Edited by Rich Norris
and Joyce Nichols
LewisBy Pam Amick
KlawitterLiteral
Literature
Tribune Content Agency © 2019SUDOKU
Dear Amy:What is my obli-
gation to my ex-wife regard-
ing travel? We’ve been di-
vorced for over four years
and have two daughters, age
9 and 15. We share custody.
When I make plans to
take the girls out of town
overnight, she insists I tell
her where we are staying.
Last weekend, my girl-
friend and I took our daugh-
ters to a friend’s lake house,
90 minutes away.
You would think I took
them to the moon, judging
by the text message tirade.
I believe I can take my
own children wherever I
want during my parenting
time, as long as they are with
me and safe, without noti-
fying my ex-wife.
I’m the Dad
Dear Dad:Check your le-
gal custody agreement for
any restrictions, but I agree
that the custodial parent has
sole responsibility for the
children during their parent-
ing time.
Your ex-wife might be try-
ing to control you, or she
might be a mom who will
sleep better at night knowing
where the kids are.
It would be considerate of
both of you to keep the other
informed about overnights.
Send questions to Amy
Dickinson by email to ask
[email protected].
ASK AMY
An unusual hand took
place with just five players
left in June’s Millionaire
Maker no-limit hold ’em
event at the World Series of
Poker in Las Vegas. The
$1,500-buy-in tournament at-
tracted 8,809 entrants. Each
finalist was guaranteed at
least $350,758 in prize money,
but all five had their eyes
firmly fixed on the a first-
place prize worth more than
$1.3 million.
In Level 41, blinds were at
800,000-1.6 million with an an-
te of 1 million, Kazuki
Ikeuchi, who had a massive
chip lead, raised to 3.5 mil-
lion from under the gun with
K♣ 8 ♠. Josh Thibodaux sat
second in chips with the
other three players toiling on
short stacks.
In tournament poker,
when the chips are distribut-
ed so unevenly, it’s common
for the chip leaders to stay
out of each other’s way. The
reason for this involves the
Independent Chip Model, a
mathematical model that al-
lows you to convert chips
stacks into real-money val-
ue. While you can’t cash outchips in a tournament, ICM
gives you an accurate idea of
how much money your chips
are worth at any point in
time.
When you have a lot of
chips relative to the rest of
the field, you’re obviously in a
good spot. But by clashing
with other big stacks, you
risk going broke and losing
out on prize money, which is
why players will often avoid
big-stack collisions. It’s sort
of an unspoken rule.
That said, players sitting
on big stacks sometimes ig-
nore this “rule” and battle it
out, which is what happened
in the Millionaire Maker.
Thibodaux called from
the button, both blindsfolded, and the flop fell K♦
10 ♦K♥.
Ikeuchi bet 3.3 million,
Thibodaux called, and the
10 ♥paired the board on the
turn. Ikeuchi checked, and
Thibodaux bet 5.2 million.
Ikeuchi check-raised to 10.4
million, and Thibodaux
moved all in for 29.3 million.
Ikeuchi snap-called.
Thibodaux was caught
bluffing and was drawing
dead to Ikeuchi’s full boat.
The meaningless 2♣was run
out on the river, and Thibo-
daux hit the rail in fifth place.
Had he not mixed it up
with Ikeuchi, Thibodaux still
would have been sitting
pretty compared with trio of
players below him.
Given that he sat second
in chips by a decent margin,
Thibodaux had a good
chance to make it to the
heads-up stage. Instead, he
busted and saw $480,025 in
prize money — the difference
between second place and
fifth place — go up in flames.Holloway is a 2013 World
Series of Poker bracelet
winner.POKER Chad Holloway
Kazuki Ikeuchi’s
handFlop TurnIn training their students,
many coaches discourage
playing speed chess. Flash-
ing off quick moves can be-
come a bad habit they want
to prevent. Quality decision-
making requires time for
thought. Few would doubt
that the faster one must
move, the more mistakes will
be made.
The main, and possibly
the most convincing, argu-
ment for speed is that it can
be a whole lot of fun. Many
exciting games filled with ad-
venture can be enjoyed in
short order.
On the international
plane, fast chess has even
gained some higher status
now among the top profes-
sionals. Not only are world ti-
tle events being run for rapid
and blitz, but those two main
speed forms are included in
other competitions as well.
The Grand Chess Tour,
now in its fifth year, is a cir-
cuit of tournaments where
the world’s best players get
to compete for various prize
pools. This year, 12 Super-
Grandmasters are included
in the full tour plus 14 wild
card participants. They are
vying through eight tourna-
ments for shares of a $1.5-mil-
lion prize fund. Fully five of
these events consist entirely
of rapid and blitz encoun-
ters.
Take for instance the one
completed this month in
Paris. It started with a 10-
player rapid chess round
robin competition with each
player starting with just 25
minutes on his clock. The
competitors’ clocks were
then set to five minutes
apiece and they commenced
to compete in a marathon, 18
rounds of blitz chess.
French GM Vachier-La-
grave, fifth-rated in the
world, raced ahead of every-
one throughout the rapid
portion to take first and a
solid lead in points. All
looked secure as he entered
the Blitz portion. After all, he
had previously managed to
achieve first in world blitz
ranking ahead of MagnusCarlsen. His unexpected off-
kilter play in Paris, though,
yielded Carlsen top spot
again. But he none-the-less
garnered enough points to
win the overall event.
Included in this column is
one of his rapid games that is
particularly enjoyable to
play through. He sacrificed a
pawn early (9.Qxd8+), stop-
ping his foe from castling.
Afterward, he took full ad-
vantage of his more active
pieces to target weaknesses
and win material. By the way,
his foe was world No. 2 Fabi-
ano Caruana, Carlsen’s last
title challenger.Game of the week
Vachier-Lagrave — Caruana
GCT Rapids Tnmt.
Paris
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4
4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 Nc6 6.g3 Nxd4
7.Qxd4 g6 8.e5 dxe5 9.Qxd8+ Kxd8
10.Bg2 Kc7 11.0–0 Be6 12.Re1 Nd7
13.Be3 a6 14.a4 Rc8 15.a5 Bg7
16.Ra4 Kb8 17.Rb4 Rc7 18.Rd1
Rhc8 19.Bf1 Ka8 20.Na4 f5 21.c4 e4
22.c5 Ne5 23.Nb6+ Kb8 24.Nxc8
Kxc8 25.Rb6 Bd7 26.b4 Ba4
27.Rb1 Nd3 28.Be2 Bc6 29.f3 Ne5
30.fxe4 Bxe4 31.Rd1 Bc6 32.Bf4
Bf6 33.h4 Rd7 34.Rxd7 Kxd7 35.b5
axb5 36.Bxb5 Bxb5 37.Rxb5 Kc8
38.Bxe5 Bxe5 39.c6 Bd4+ 40.Kg2
bxc6 41.Rb1 h6 42.a6 e5 43.Rb7 h5
44.Rg7 Kb8 45.Rxg6 c5 46.Kf3 c4
47.Ke2 e4 48.Rg5 Be5 49.g4 hxg4
50.Rxf5 Bd4 51.Rg5 c3 52.Rxg4
Bf6 53.Rxe4 1–0[email protected]Aug. 25, 2019
Position No. 4587:White
mates in two.Position No. 4586:1.Nf6! Hint:
White mates next with: Qd5,
Qg7, Qe7 or Qc7.CHESS Bill Cornwall
Aries(March 21-April 19):
The perspective you get from
alone time is invaluable and
will help you appreciate the
richness that relationships
bring to your life.
Taurus(April 20-May 20):
Home is home for a reason.
Embrace it and let it help you
decide on your next move.
Gemini(May 21-June 21):
Ask your important ques-
tion because it’s like the
whole universe is conspiring
to answer you.
Cancer(June 22-July 22):
Whatever the worst task is,
do it first. The best part of
the day comes afterward.
Leo(July 23-Aug. 22): The
one currency that seems the
most important (money and
time are the usual culprits) is
actually the least important
commodity.
Virgo(Aug. 23-Sept. 22):
If you think your job is hard,
try imagining the hard jobs
required throughout hu-
manity’s existence.
Libra(Sept. 23-Oct. 23):
Love isan investment that
can happen little by little
over weeks or decades, or it
can happen all at once.
Scorpio(Oct. 24-Nov. 21):
Treat technology as a serv-
ant and not a master. To an-
swer every call and text
would be a mistake.
Sagittarius(Nov. 22-Dec.
21): It’s time to put the word
out. Pretend like you’re your
own PR person.
Capricorn(Dec. 22-Jan.
19): Focus on the small and
simple questions like,
“Which kind of bread should
I choose?”
Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb.
18): You’ll be very aware of
your energy and how you
wield it today.
Pisces (Feb. 19-March
20): The people you think will
be helpful will not be so help-
ful at all. Move quickly on.
Embrace new energy.
Today’s birthday(Aug.
25): You’re not overly worried
about the same things you
once were. You have hard evi-
dence that life seems to be
working out for you. Much is
going in your favor and the
trend will continue. New
friends come into your life
and interesting twists hap-
pen in the next 10 weeks. Your
excellent judgment leads to a
big January win. Cancer and
Pisces adore you. Your lucky
numbers: 9, 2, 19, 18 and 33.
Holiday Mathis writes
her column for Creators
Syndicate Inc. The
horoscope should be
read for entertainment.
HOROSCOPE
Holiday Mathis